Spontaneous airway hyperresponsiveness in estrogen receptor-α- deficient mice

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-135

  Carey, Michelle A ^b   Card, Jeffrey W ^b   Bradbury, J Alyce ^b   Moorman, Michael P ^b   Haykal Coates, Najwa ^b   Gavett, Stephen H ^b   Graves, Joan P ^b   Walker, Vickie R ^b   Flake, Gordon P ^b   Voltz, James W ^b   Zhu, Daling ^b   Jacobs, Elizabeth R ^b   Dakhama, Azzeddine ^b   Larsen, Gary L ^b   Loader, Joan E ^b   Gelfand, Erwin W ^b   Germolec, Dori R ^b   Korach, Kenneth S ^b   Zeldin, Darryl C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Asthma; Estrogen receptor; Hyperreactivity; Lung function; M2 muscarinic receptor

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; AUTORECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GALLAMINE; METHACHOLINE; MUSCARINIC M2 RECEPTOR; OVALBUMIN; SEROTONIN;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIZATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALLERGENS; ANIMALS; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; CYTOKINES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OVALBUMIN; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RECEPTOR, MUSCARINIC M2; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; SEROTONIN; TRACHEA;

EID: 33846286093     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200509-1493OC     Document Type: Article

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